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Wager of battle
Meaning
Noun
●
In British English & Law:
The
giving
of
gage
, or
pledge
, for
trying
a cause by
single combat
, formerly
allowed
in
military
,
criminal
, and
civil
causes
,
and finally
abolished
in 1819. In
writs of right
, where the
trial
was by
champions
, the
tenant
produced
his
champion
, who, by
throwing down
his
glove
as a
gage
, thus "waged", or
stipulated
,
battle
with the
champion
of the
demandant
, who, by
taking up
the
glove
,
accepted
the challenge.
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Synonyms
Wager Of Battel
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